Obama And The American Socialized Healthcare System
By J. D. Longstreet (11/26/08)
The MsM is telling us that Obama fully intends to push for socialized medicine early in his first year as President. Why not? Our financial institutions have already been socialized (nationalized, whichever you prefer). Our auto Industry looks, for all the world, as if they are ready to become nationalized, as well. Now healthcare, which accounts for one-seventh of the US economy, is about to be the next huge segment of the American economy to be taken over by the government. How can anyone, observing the American slide into socialism, not be concerned and even outraged at what our government is doing to the democratic representative republic given us by our Founding Fathers?
The soon to be proposed national healthcare program will most likely be patterned after the Canadian nationalized healthcare system. So how does the Canadian healthcare system stack up against US healthcare these days, anyway? Where better to get a comparison than from a declared liberal site. So we dropped by the site "Classically Liberal" at: http://freestudents.blogspot.com/2007/09/does-canadian-health-care-really-stack.html
We found some interesting stuff. We recommend you visit the site and read it in its entirety.
Socialized medicine is not about our healthcare as Americans. It's about power over the American citizen and control over every facet of our life by the government of the US.
Our every move will be monitored, and we will be directed, by the government, in every facet of our lives.
Weigh too much? Lose weight… or the government won't pay for your medical bills.
Drive too fast? Slow down or the government won't pay for your medical bills if you're in an accident.
Smoke? The government won't pay for your medical bills, period.
Have more than (two) kids? Your medical bills will not be paid if you exceed the allowable limit on babies.
Pregnant with a third child and the government insists that you have an abortion, but you really want this third child? Well, either have an abortion, or that third child will have no medical coverage and the cost of the pregnancy, and delivery, will not be covered, either.
Didn't finish High School? Your medical bills will not be covered if you do not get a High School Diploma.
Take the wrong courses in college? Well, if you didn't check before you signed up for a course, and you signed-up for a course the government thinks is uncalled for, or that you do not need for your chosen occupation… then your medical bills will not be picked up by the National Healthcare.
Choose the wrong career, and you are on your own! No medical help from the government.
Get the picture? Almost total control. And you, and I, will have given that power to the government.
What about the cost? You sure you want to know? Well let me establish first… there is no such thing as free healthcare. Somebody is going to pay. Who pays? You and I will pay… in taxes. There is no free lunch! There never has been! If you want it… you must be prepared to pay for it… and if you think healthcare is expensive now… just wait 'til it's free!
So, next time you hear someone calling for National Healthcare, remind them of all the freedom they will give up for that cradle to the grave care.
The founders of this country wanted us to live free… healthy, if we can manage it, but free, in any event. Today, it seems we are prepared to give our freedom up for a form of modern day Marxism. Socialized Medicine.
J. D. Longstreet
http://csadispatch.blogspot.com/
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